living there. He climbed the hill, and when he got near, he heard the sounds of the haka and waiata:—
A canoe, a canoe,
A canoe of flax, a canoe.
Grow kawa,
Blaze kawa.
Tie up carefully
With leaf of flax,
Blazing kawa.
Whakatauihi made this haka. His was also the proverb, "ko te ure tonu; ko te raho tonu." He it was who avenged the death of Tuhuruhuru.[1]
When Ihenga got nearer he perceived that they were not men, but Atua. There was a fire burning on a tree. So he stopt suddenly to look at them, while they looked at him. "A nanakia," shouted one of them, running forward to catch him. But Ihenga fled, and, as he was running, set fire to the dry fern with a lighted brand he had in his hand. The whole fern was ablaze, and the tribe of Fairies fled to the forest and the hills. Then Ihenga went back to look at their Pa which had been burnt by the fire. There he found the kauae or jaw-bone of a moa, so he named the place Kauae. He then returned to the shore of the lake, and went on in his canoe. He named the hill Ngongotaha, because of the flight of the Fairies.
Ihenga paddled along the shores of the lake giving names to many places as he went—Weriweri, Kopu, Te Awahou, Puhirua—which last he so named because the bunch of feathers fastened to his paiaka fell off. At another place the inanga leaped out of the
- ↑ Vide "Traditions and Superstitions," p. 68.
